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Something for the Seder 2 |
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Written by Mordechai Y. Scher
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 20:42 |
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Something for the Seder 2
Certainly one of the dominant facets of the Passover holyday is the prohibition of hametz. Simply stated, it is forbidden to eat, own, benefit from hametz. Hametz is the leavened or fermented product of any of the five grains: wheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt.
The commandment for generations forbids hametz the entire week of Pesah; but in the year we left Egypt the prohibition was only for when we had the Passover offering.
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Written by Mordechai Y. Scher
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 19:49 |
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Thoughts for Ki Tisa 2
A subtle note comes through in this parsha, how much Hashem depends upon US, Bnei Yisrael, to bring his Torah into the world. In some ways, I think the revelation of Torah in the world parallels the manner in which the Creation itself came about.
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Written by Mordechai Y. Scher
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:55 |
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Thoughts for T’tzaveh
When I was a young man, the Armoured Corps of the IDF had a motto: ‘ki ha-adam hu haplada’. ‘Man is the armour.’ So much time is spent on all the technical and mechanical requirements of maintaining and operating a tank; and the giant machine is so impressive in itself. In all that, one could forget that the key element is, in fact, the crews who man and operate and maintain these machines to the benefit of man, of society.
I was reminded of this looking at our sedra this week.
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Something for the Seder 1 |
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Written by Mordechai Y. Scher
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:30 |
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We will try in the coming weeks to post some interesting ideas about Pesah/Passover and the seder night. Please feel free to add comments of your own! Something for the Seder 1 The seder itself is very much the model we did/would/will follow when a korban pesah - Passover offering - is in front of us. We sit down at the table with essentially the same agenda as we have had for the seder for thousands of years. We sit at the seder table with the same agenda we followed when Jews came to Jerusalem from all over, and sat throughout the city, the Temple Mount, and the surrounding hillsides with their families, friends, and passover offering, matzah, and maror.
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Written by Mordechai Y. Scher
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Friday, 19 February 2010 14:03 |
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Thoughts for T’rumah 2
Just a quick thought, really. Rav Tzvi Yehudah Hacohen Kook would regularly took about the weekly Torah portion in terms of themes. Themes can create the context for greater understanding; and they can often be the indicator highlighting an important underlying truth themselves.
At this point, T’rumah, we transition to a focal point that will occupy us for the rest of the book of Sh’mot/Exodus. Nearly half of this humash is taken up with the topic of the mishkan - the Tabernacle. A place of worship. A place of confrontation with God. A place to encounter the Divine Presence, the Sh’chinah, in its most revealed and immanent manner.
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